"It may be a childish torment, but we……" — Andrew Sean Greer

"It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons."

— Andrew Sean Greer

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16 Quotes by Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for…
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place,…
It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
We are each the love of someone's life.
Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility…
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty,…
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched…
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married…
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion…
Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us…

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More Childish Quotes

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life… — Drew Barrymore
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all.… — Samuel Butler
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been… — Sigmund Freud
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only… — Elizabeth Bowen
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away… — Francis Bacon
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein

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